"Contrarian impulses, counterintuitive thinking, dissent from established interpretations—in the wrong hands, these propensities can be offensively slick, but in the right hands they're the stuff of scholarship. Historians, after all, don't toil in the archives to adduce more evidence confirming everything we always knew."
In the wake of the film version of The History Boys, Slate republishes this assessment of the stageplay by David Greenberg.
And Tristram Hunt in The Guardian reviews a new biography of AJP Taylor, the first "TV don."
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